johnwheeler

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by johnwheeler 5d ago
I appreciate the honesty here. He talks about how programming became part of his identity, how being good at it earned him respect, and how it gave him a sense that he was providing something valuable. But here’s the deal: 1. The world does
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by johnwheeler 16d ago
It's not worse than the man. It's better. You're just trying to protect your ego. It's ridiculous.
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by johnwheeler 17d ago
Even better, "hey, chat GPT, list my branches by commit date." I know that's not a popular answer, but I'm just trying to demonstrate the reality that this kind of knowledge isn't specialized anymore.
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by johnwheeler 20d ago
It's not a struggling company. I run an e-commerce website. I give people the option to use either Stripe or PayPal. I would say it's a 50 50 split. The company is making $5 billion in profit a year. What's wrong with people?
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by johnwheeler 29d ago
The thing is, is it's not a subjective thing. It's objectively bad. I think that's what the story is or the appeal of the post. It's calling out, something that everyone else thinks is so great, but it's actually re
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by johnwheeler 29d ago
I don't know why this comment's getting down voted. It's absolutely true. I would also add that Anthropic seems to limit, compute, the more you use it because I'm on the Max subscription, and it just stops working for me
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by johnwheeler 1mo ago
This article misses the point. It assumes that the way business is currently done will be the way business is always done, but the LLM revolution aims to replace businesses that have these types of constraints sure initially it will work wi
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by johnwheeler 2mo ago
looks expensive
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Show HN: Dropper(dropper.page)
6 points by johnwheeler 2mo ago|0 comments
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by johnwheeler 2mo ago
In my experience, claude cowork has been pretty much useless. for the desktop control, it just seems like the The accessibility stuff is just not there yet on macOS to support it.
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by johnwheeler 2mo ago
I think that Elon Musk went from being recognized as a genius to being recognized as a genius but someone who's harder to take seriously, because of all the ketamine he was doing for a little while there. I think that really damaged hi
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
That's funny, I just asked the same thing. Usually employers aren't interested in people looking for jobs, they're interested in people that already have jobs.Maybe in an ideal world it would be otherwise, but we don't l
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
Do these ever really even work? Can one person say that they've gotten a job from one of these?
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
Yeah, I've been crossing my fingers that they do some kind of reverse rug pull. I think most of the world is. Smart marketing because it takes the wind out of your sails and then blows it right back and makes you feel like they're
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
Man, instead of "Thank you" they should've said "Fuck you"
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
That's one way to do it.
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
Well, of course they did. Are you kidding?
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
Here are the reviews. https://www.youtube.com/@screendotcam
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Show HN: Screen recording your crappy startup(youtube.com)
3 points by johnwheeler 3mo ago|1 comments
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
What is a loop in simple terms?
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
Yeah, it's a good polished piece of software no doubt. I'm not denying that, but the hype it gets is just... I don't know.
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
I use Ghost TTY coming from iTerm for no other reason than I saw everybody else using and praising it. Is there some special feature I'm missing? I would only call it a marginal improvement. If that. I fail to see what the big deal is.
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
How is this different than just using a resume?
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
These are not mutually exclusive.
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
Site logo is a bad UX idea.
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
Claude--even though it's smarter, it's probably not insane.
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Show HN: Descript Meets Screen Studio with Upload to YouTube / Free(screen.cam)
2 points by johnwheeler 3mo ago|0 comments
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
https://screen.cam screen.cam records your Mac and turns it into a polished video. Smart zooms follow your cursor. Filler words come out automatically. AI-assisted YouTube uploads.
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
XAI rents out compute to anthropic. I feel like Sam Altman is behind this that little rat.
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by johnwheeler 3mo ago
There's definitely a difference between the models.

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